Webinar Transcript: College Financial Aid 101
Elton Lin
Hi everybody, good to have you on for our next installment of our ILUMIN webinar series. I’m excited to have Jack Wang on our show today.
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Webinar Transcript: How To Build a College List
Elton Lin
Good evening, everyone! We have a very exciting topic today for a lot of our rising seniors (current juniors) – and maybe some younger students to start thinking about – the college list process: what schools they should be looking at when they're thinking about the admissions process.
Read More6 Tips for Asking Teachers for Letters of Recommendation
Elton Lin
Students do a lot of self-advocating in their college applications, but colleges also value hearing what others have to say about an applicant. This is where teacher recommendation letters come into play.
Read MoreWebinar Transcript: Should I Apply Early?
Elton Lin
Thanks for joining us tonight on another part of our webinar series. We’re talking about early decision early action today – as a lot of our juniors (soon to be rising seniors) are about to be planning their college lists, and thinking about which schools they might want to do an early application for.
Read MoreWebinar Transcript: Timeline for 12th Grade College Admissions
Elton Lin
Good evening, everyone. Really glad that all of you can make it today. We have a really exciting topic for a lot of our juniors right now – to get ready for the admissions process, and start to think about the timeline: what they should be thinking about, researching schools, essays… We'll go through everything today! College tours – I think that's also something on people's minds: thinking about that for spring break, potentially. We'll talk about all of that today.
Read MoreWebinar Transcript: How Can 9th and 10th Graders Prepare for Admissions?
Elton Lin
Welcome back to our webinar series. It's been a little bit, but I'm glad that we're able to chat again – and hear from all of the folks at home – to give you some thoughts about what's coming up for our younger students: freshmen and sophomores… and a little bit of what's on our minds in regards to how we support younger students. And, hopefully, what should be on students’ and parents’ minds getting ready for this process.
Read MoreHow To Plan Your College Visits Over Spring Break
Elton Lin
Planning for spring break? Check if college visits are on your itinerary! For all high schoolers, especially 11th graders who are building their college lists and 12th graders who are waiting to hear back from schools before National Decision Day, spring break is the optimal time to visit college campuses.
Read MoreNortheastern: The School with Offerings
Elton Lin
Last week, we were honored to be able to host Olivia Harris, Assistant Director of Admissions at Northeastern University for a Live Q&A, in which she revealed to us that Northeastern isn’t your typical top-50 college. Olivia’s tagline was simple: “We have a lot of offerings.”
Read MoreWebinar Transcript: Live Q&A with Northeastern Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions
Tony Flores
Welcome everyone. Thanks for joining us today. It’s really great to have everyone again. I know it's been a while since we've had a webinar, but we’re really glad that Olivia Harris could join us today from Northeastern University admissions.
Read MoreWebinar Transcript: Live Q&A with Pomona College Associate Dean of Admissions
Elton Lin
I know there have got to be a lot of rising seniors coming in and trying to also learn more about Pomona today. I definitely want to get to all your questions – and get you an idea of the campus.
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